Elftastic Adventures - A Classroom Elf on the Shelf Link Up

It's back! Last year I started this Linky and I am back with the adventures of Snowflake again! Do you have a classroom elf? If so, then come and link up and share all about your elf antics! Grab this graphic to use and link back to this post.

Snowflake made his grand arrival on December 1st! Santa and I have talked about this and I told him there was no way I could have a messy, crazy elf in my classroom. He was kind enough to send us his most trustworthy and best behaved elf. Phew! I didn't think I could handle an elf who started our day off with crazy messes. Santa even sent a letter with Snowflake to introduce him to us:

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This is how we found Snowflake on the 1st. He was sitting in his favourite spot in the room - up high where he can see everyone and not be worried about someone touching him!

The students were super excited to meet him. I was really hoping it was going help as we are starting to go a bit off the rails.

Wednesday we found him wrapping!

Snowflake wrapped up almost all of our Christmas books! He brought a letter from Santa to to remind everyone to try to be better listeners! Unfortunately it didn't really seem to help the ones who really needed the reminder.

This is one of my FAVOURITE Christmas in the classroom traditions. The kids were beyond excited and wanted to open them all right then and there. We counted to make sure that there was a present for everyone and sure enough there was. Now, when it is time to read a story, I use my random name chooser on my smartboard and the lucky student comes up to unwrap our story.

On Thursday Snowflake felt like he needed a better place to watch from and hung out in one of balls hanging from the ceiling. He felt really safe there! The kids are loving talking to him but he is not working his magic like he did with my class this year. My class is super chatty and are really struggling to listen during lessons. I might need to amp things up next week!

This was also the second day of our Elf Journal. I love this freebie from Positively Teaching called Elf Antics! She designed the pages to be super simple with just a little drawing spot. I assembled the journals and each day the students find Snowflake and write about what he is doing. They were pretty excited when I told them that they were taking the journal home when they left for Christmas #itsthelittlethings.

Today we also got started on one of my favourite craftivities which goes along with a Christmas poem I wrote that we are learning - Santa's Stuck! We are working on it for our school Christmas concert in a few weeks. You can find the poem by clicking {HERE} or the image below.

Our last Snowflake sighting this week found him reading with our class mascot Ellie, Santa, Hippo and some of the reading buddies. He was enjoying the book we opened on the day before, Pete the Cat Saves Christmas. He loves to read just as much as I do!

Today we worked on a craftivity to go with our Santa's Stuck poem. This is such a cute story. We have a battered copy in our library and I guard it with my life as I have not seen it anywhere else and can't find a copy to buy. I absolutely the love the ideas they come up with to free Santa from the chimney.